So, I loved the first game. While it had its flaws, the sense of freedom and the feeling of power are absolutely some of the best I've ever experience from any game.
Then I tried this... and some of the changes I really didn't like.
> terrible characters > worse art style > uninspired story > clunkier movement (this is a big one) > no more orbs (they were fun to collect while moving at sanic speed)
I feel like I'm controlling a human version of the Hulk instead of a sleek ninja humanoid virus. The power-up progression the overall pacing of game also felt slower and clunkier too.
I dropped it halfway through the game too, it was just too terrible.
Nolan Gutierrez
So i've only played 2 because 1 won't work on my PC for whatever reasons, but i had a lot of fun 100%-ing it
Dominic Lee
Never played Prototype2 because of the change in MC. I'd just refund it since you can literally pirate it for free. I only ever buy games if I want to support the dev.
Brandon Roberts
You should definitely give the first game a chance on a different platform if you can. The fun I had just moving around and unlocking the power-ups cannot be overstated.
The missions do get a little repetitive and tedious though, and some of them are hardly an amazing feat of game design.
Robert Reyes
why is there suddenly daily prototype threads lately?
fuck off
Adam Nelson
>insecure white people being salty over a game because it has a black male protagonist
Luis Stewart
I just don't want to play as a character that is nothing like me.
Xavier Morgan
prototype took forever to get from one point of the city to another. does 2 do this as well?
Kayden Hernandez
>Reee people talk about videogames on the videogames board fuck off Hi
Ryan Richardson
>Prototype 1 >Hello, my name is Mercer >Prototype 2 >FUCK YOU FUCKBOY MY MOTHERFUCKING NAME IS FUCKING HELLER And that's not including how the gameplay and movement was worse.
Alexander Wilson
Heller moves SLOWER than Mercer. They also streamlined powers so even though he has some really cool shit, you can't do as much at once.
Hunter Perry
I couldn't care less about the race or gender of the character. He is just unlikable and trying way too hard with all the swearing.
He also controls like shit compared to Mercer and doesn't look nearly as cool. His voice acting is also way worse while Mercer's was fantastic.
John Green
It's because an eceleb Yea Forums knows about made a video about the game recently, I'm guessing.
Ayden Rogers
the second one had objectively worse parkour
Cameron Cox
also its not a race thing. rampant sjw/pc culture was not a thing back then in the gaming industry. He was genuinely a shit character.
Jackson Turner
>His voice acting is also way worse while Mercer's was fantastic Everyone's voice acting in 2 was awful.
Brayden Roberts
I'm samefagging cause I love this "Franchise" so much. Is it possible to get a 3rd game still. Playing as mercer or even his sister and it sill haven't the same gore, violence just for the sake of violence, kino gameplay, and edge. Or is it impossible in today's gaming industry.
Leo Roberts
But I'm salty because Prototype 2 was a bad game with worse combat and parkour and then first, worse characters, story and dialogue than the first, and at best made some small improvements but made too many downgrades and was in the end an objectively bad game. And it ended up killing the franchise. Heller wasn't even that bad when he wasn't shouting at people like an idiot.
Christopher Sanders
having*
Tyler Lewis
If you can refund it, do it. As a huge fan of the first game, my disappointment with 2 is immeasurable. They killed the characterization of the returning cast, most importantly Alex, and make you play as an idiot that walks face first into every obvious trap set for him. Blackwatch are turned into actual sadistic Nazis as opposed to an organization that would do anything to contain the virus. The devs fucking with the movement disappointed me as well. I think they changed the bindings for dashing? And it fucked with how it interacted with jumping. They added a couple neat abilities but in all the game was a complete let down.
It was made by the same studio in name only; every member of the team had been replaced by someone else.
Connor Foster
>every member of the team had been replaced by someone else Huh, I didn't know what, no wonder the game was so bad.
Jayden Gray
the game was also super kino because of hard it was. helicopters would rape your ass, and iirc elizabeth green was hard af, though that could have been me just being younger.
Joshua Young
>make a black military guy >make him a complete dumbass Guess which one is the actual problem.
Noah Scott
Don't forget >less powers >no combos >no fun-but-useless skills (most of the skills that make harassing civilians fun)
Dominic White
By that logic, wouldn't people like Heller? He's literally the dumbest person in the game, has random outbursts of anger and violence, and swears in every sentence.
Jackson Gray
They added that sticky bomb thing, which is pretty neat. That's all I can remember at the moment.
Joseph Morris
The gameplay was a direct upgrade unless you LOVED the fun-yet-useless human form attacks. Having two powers at the same time dramatically expanded what you were capable of in a very engaging way.
Aiden Johnson
> worse art style I felt like they tried to make it more comic book, I hated how Blacklight went from commando soldiers to hooded googly eye ninjas with punching daggers on their arms.
Series could still be salvaged though, the nuke caused Mercer to fracture creating multiple, third game would you being the original mercers having to reabsorb all his dopplegangers and the one that Heller absorbed aswell.
Adam Wood
>mods deleting the racist comments towards this fucking nigger and issuing a temporary block to anyone who wrote it What the fuck are you doing you brainless morons? Is this really what this shit hole of a board has got to now?
One thing that I feel the first game could have done is make stealth more significant. Like, they were really lenient with being detected doing insane movement stuff around others, probably to make the game less frustrating, but I personally would have enjoyed trying to behave more "human" to infiltrate places.
Brandon Thompson
Yeah, the difficulty was great. It was challenging but mostly fair (the spamming of shit thrown at you got a little out of hand sometimes), and the controls were perfect and never got in the way, unlike in the sequel.
I managed to beat Greene first try and the final boss on the second.
Wyatt Watson
One of the report categories is literally "racism outside of Yea Forums." Imagine getting mad when rules get enforced.
Leo Thomas
imagine complaining and mocking resetera when you're no better than them at times
Aiden Wright
>less powers Who the fuck loved powerfists? They are gimnick as hell and only useful in the end of the game against the supreme hunter. Armor was a niche power too and people only used it for aesthetic look,they hindered your parkour skills too much and made you slower. In the sequel all those advantages go away with the upgrades that make you invincible
Carter Howard
That rule has never been enforced here until recently. Mods really do not get this fucking place. Who is hiring these fucking jokers?
Julian Parker
Agreed, the art style change was the worst for me. I liked the fairly realistic look of the first game but weird armblade ninja Blackwatch were so stupid I dropped the game fairly quickly.
Henry Green
>m-muh board culture
Easton Jenkins
>cant flip off the walls >air dash controls are worse >no armor mode >direct upgrade
Kevin White
the issue is that rules are super vague and not enforced with any consistency, so its open to abuse and mods are complete turds (ie in the same thread they left blatant racial hatred but deleted serious discussion they disliked )
Julian Diaz
Blame the retards that were shitposting with pepe in a tux nonstop. People are getting aggravated by all the /pol/posting outside of the regular "journalist" hate threads. Most would agree that Yea Forums is shit, and it's because of constant thread derails into >muh 40% and other shit. When mods actually try to do something people like you start bitching because you think the constant shitposting belongs here.
Hudson Adams
Thanks for the feedback, bros. I've decided to ask for a refund.
It really is a shame though. If only they stuck to what made the first game great and truly improved upon it while adding more variety and next gen graphics, it could have been a true masterpiece.
Grayson Ramirez
>Who the fuck loved powerfists? You mean Musclemass? And the answer is everyone. It was fun as fuck punching people so hard the split in half, or throwing things twice as far. It wouldn't work in 2 because there's no more combos, so that cuts off 90% of the use of Musclemass. And niche powers is exactly what made the first fun. It wasn't about having the best power for the situation, it was about feeling like you can do anything.
Jaxson Diaz
>AYO HOMIE I MAHFAGIN HATE DESE COMPUDAZ AIIGHT What did Radical mean by this?
Gavin Ramirez
And eceleb threads are allowed to stay up and frequently reach bump limt because no one on here actually fucking plays video games.
Jonathan Edwards
Funny when people used the blades almost everytime once they unlocked them since they were able to everything better than the rest of the powers except whipfist
Robert Butler
I heard they wasted a shitload of time and money on expensive rent and parties while developing this. Would not be surprised at all I still beat it twice for the easy Platinum trophy/1000G
Nathaniel Scott
I didn't use the blades outside of the tougher battles where I didn't want to gimp myself. Hammerfist toss against tanks all the time, muscle mass brawling, claw dicing was my way.
Angel Reyes
Yeah, I was honestly disappointed how Blade rendered Hammerfist and Claw pretty much obsolete. It's late in the game, so it's not too terrible. I guess the worst part is doing those Claw challenges after using Blade for so long, kek.
Wyatt Hill
go back to reset era you faggot tranny and i hope the mods all die
Hudson Hill
>Having two powers at the same time dramatically expanded Two powers at once reduced what you could do, since it replaced powers with combos. Now it's just XXX for your first power and YYY for your second, and only one 3 hit combo for each power.
Cameron Wood
How is prototype 1 on pc? Seems lots of people have issues with windows 10, glad I don't have it
Gabriel Hughes
>they were able to everything better than the rest It's not about utility, it's about fun. Blade might be the most useful, but it can't beat the satisfaction of killing 5 enemies at once with the Claw's groundspike, launching a crowd into the air with Hammerfist's shockwave, or kicking a soldier into another soldier with the unarmed kickflip. If you only used the blade once you got it, it means you were just trying to get through the game, not having fun experimenting.
William Green
Activision is sitting on the rights to the franchise. There will be no 3rd.
Gavin Morgan
Buttery smooth even on the crappiest and most ancient laptops.
Thomas Barnes
Enjoy your sales and sequel.
Aiden Jenkins
Niiiice, thanks user
Jaxon Martinez
It's a crapshoot. I got good performance on a cheap prebuilt with integrated graphics (AMD, if it matters), and horrible performance on a PC that can play modern games at 4k 144fps. Both running Windows 10. Not sure if it's the game being optimized for the former's architecture, or a Windows update between the two breaking it.